The public archives hold just one old photo of Oak Ridge. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Oak Ridge’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Oak Ridge.
The earliest inhabitants of the area were different Native American cultures prior to European contact. Between 1540 and 1685 a multimound site with an adjoining central plaza was built. Since its archeological rediscovery c. 1848, the area has come to be known as the Jordan Mounds. It is believed that by 1700 the site was abandoned.
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Woven from the archive, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereSamuel T. Baird is born here
Born hereAbner Wimberly is born here
In the archiveOak Ridge, Louisiana during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Oak Ridge’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia and Wikidata for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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